In politics, as in retail, it’s all about knowing the customer. The winners in tight political races know the minutest details about their target audience and are able to execute microtargeted campaigns based on this knowledge. In this vein, the 2012 post-election buzz is all about how Obama’s team...

Our Twelve Days of Jargon continue with day six: Cloud Computing.   Santa's job is making and deploying toys, not applications. So, like many enterprises, he needs to get more productivity out of a smallish staff. (And before I get nasty letters about “smallish staff”: I only mean that they're...

Yes, we continued our series of videos for the Twelve Days of Jargon over the weekend. Sorry about that. You'll have to suffer through some really bad Christmas clothes in order to hear about Master Data Management (MDM), Performance Management, and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). Here are a few...

  Last year I helped a close friend of mine get through some tough times:  his mother was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer and required a double mastectomy.  Several months after receiving a clean bill of health, he called her primary doctor to set up her annual physical. ...

Welcome to the Twelve Days of Jargon. Or the Twelve Days of Tacky Sweaters. Regardless of the name, the next twelve days will feature someone (who will remain nameless) discussing topics and terms related to our favorite subjects, which we call the three I's: business intelligence, data integrity,...

I have many personal reasons to be thankful this year. I am also thankful that all our colleagues, customers, partners and friends located in New York and New Jersey survived Sandy. But I want to focus here on the good things that are happening in our industry for which all information...

Our International Summit 2012 focused on delivering maximum value to customers through a series of one-day events in key cities. After our flagship user conference, Summit 2012, in June in Orlando, we kicked off local Summit events in Paris, Amsterdam, London, Madrid, Milan, Frankfurt, Mexico City...

Chances are you’ll be spending a significant portion of today checking news channels, websites and social networks for the latest information on the Election. Regardless of your political beliefs, one thing we can all agree upon is that there are numerous challenges facing our country—in a variety...

Today we are excited to kick off a month-long celebration of all things mobile –Oktober Mobile Fest!  I like to say that “mobile is the new normal” because it is fast becoming the first (and sometimes the only) place we go to communicate and to consume information. It is as vital as our keys...

For years, we’ve been saying that pervasive BI is an absolute necessity because everyone in an organization makes decisions. This statement deserves some reflection, and I want to take a moment to look at it from a historical perspective. Looking at how management revolutions, such as Total...